Top 100 Better Than Yourself Quotes
#1. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#3. We all have a role to play. Don't despair at your own talents... Don't try to be better than anybody else. Just try to be better than yourself
Edgar J. Steele
#4. The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.
Molly Peacock
#5. Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
#6. When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.
Ibn Hazm
#7. When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Confucius
#8. Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.
Jim Morrison
#10. Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
William J.H. Boetcker
#11. The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.
Wallace D. Wattles
#13. Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.
Richard Branson
#14. Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.
Nouman Ali Khan
#15. I think you should try ... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.
Anderson Silva
#16. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
#17. In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
Johannes Tauler
#18. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."
John F. Kerry
#19. Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even when you think you know everything about them and they you, and you live in each other's souls.
Even then you know nothing about them at all.
Jenny Colgan
#20. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Mark McCormack
#21. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.
Mary Cheney
#22. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]
Cyril Connolly
#23. It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself
Jack London
#24. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.
Tom Robbins
#25. I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.
Katherine Heigl
#26. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.
Anthony Liccione
#27. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#28. It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
William Feather
#29. No one can know you better than two peoples in the world.
1- Yourself
2- Your Mirror
Abhishek Bhatt
#30. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.
Tanya Masse
#31. I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!
Elizabeth Adams
#32. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff
#33. Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. It's better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. Life can never promise to always be happy but life gets better after you accept things you just can't change. For you Jelle, from me.. with luv. He-he!
Marione Ashley
#35. Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#36. Successful leaders all share one common trait - they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.
Brandon Sanderson
#37. I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.
Adam Goucher
#38. It better to underestimate yourself
than to underestimate the competition.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#40. I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,
Than to live and love life more without them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#41. When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than do.
John O'Donohue
#42. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
Suman Jyoty Bhante
#43. Better to have steel to hand and find no trouble than find yourself in trouble with no steel to hand.
Joe Abercrombie
#44. You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.
Brian Tracy
#45. Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.
Kaoru
#46. I now believe there is no better way to set yourself apart than to refer clients to your clients and facilitate these valuable connections.
Derek Coburn
#47. If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
Cassandra Clare
#48. The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you're bound to win.
Stabley Victor Paskavich
#49. It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.
Charlotte Bronte
#50. There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideas
with peers.
Eraldo Banovac
#51. Being true to yourself is better than being a liar just to impress everyone.
Nancy Wright
#52. There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against.
Cobi Jones
#53. Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.
Robin Williams
#54. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
Zig Ziglar
#56. It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
Gautama Buddha
#57. Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.
Warren Buffett
#58. For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
Eric Hoffer
#59. you can find better than me, worst than me. But you'll never find someone exactly like me.
Angie
#60. Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
Dean Koontz
#62. The best person to write for is yourself - and what better place to start than in a journal.
E.L. James
#63. Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday.
Vikrmn
#64. So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!
Mandy Hale
#65. What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.
Martin Buber
#66. At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.
Timothy Miller
#68. You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
Raymond E. Feist
#69. When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.
Hillary Clinton
#70. Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.
Gautama Buddha
#71. Don't punish yourself for what others have done to you. You're better than them. You're better than you think.
Mia Tyler
#72. No one else can understand you better than you yourself.
Vikrmn
#73. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.
Paula Stokes
#74. It's called an inner voice for a reason. It's the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It's the one voice in your life that isn't tampered by other's biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.
Hope Alcocer
#75. Dreaming's shit, but dying's worse; and watching someone die, that comes somewhere between the two, I guess. It ain't good, but it's got to be better than the other thing, better than doing it yourself. Hasn't it?
Chaz Brenchley
#76. The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young
#77. Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.
John C. Maxwell
#78. Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.
Daisaku Ikeda
#79. It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie
Anthony Venn-Brown
#80. First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy
#81. It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.
Livia Blackburne
#82. It's when you see yourself as different rather than better, that you truly become a change that interferes with the world rather that allowing that world, in its different dynamics and forms of expression, to be interfering with you.
Robin Sacredfire
#83. I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#84. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.
Karen Salmansohn
#85. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
Richard Bach
#86. As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
Jenny Eclair
#87. Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Mary Baker Eddy
#88. Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.
Demi Lovato
#89. It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
Matt Damon
#90. Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?
Peter Kreeft
#91. I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.
Mickey Sumner
#92. O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
William Shakespeare
#93. It's better to be a "misfit" than a "one-size-fits-all"!
Mandy Hale
#94. Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
Tony Vincent
#95. You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem.
Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem.
Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.
Richelle Mead
#96. I put my arm around her and said, Jas, I have found that when you are troubled, it is often better to think of others rather than yourself. I think you would feel much better if you got me some milky coffee and jammy dodgers and I told you all about me.
Louise Rennison
#97. Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.
Leonard Sweet
#98. By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes
#99. There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#100. God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.
Joyce Meyer
